Biography
Sofiia Yesakova (*1998) lives and works in Berlin. In 2024 she participated in the Berlin postgraduate program Goldrausch Künstlerinnen. Yesakova is a member of Frontviews at HAUNT Berlin, where she is also part of the curatorial board.
Central to Yesakova’s artistic practice is the research into the increasing role of information in regulating and controlling human behaviour—being able as it is to rapidly adapt to any situation and reduce everything to statistics. A search for truth in a stream of interference.
Yesakova uses diagrams or engineering-like schematic drawings to arrive at an alternative form of artistic narrative. Bureaucratically consistent, dry and lifeless. She often refers to theoretical concepts like Gilles Deleuze’s layering approach of thinking, Jacques Lacan’s analysis of society’s structures and Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concepts.
In recent years, she has been inspired by the idea of ciphering and creating a certain structure of visual storytelling, often…
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Sofiia Yesakova (*1998) lives and works in Berlin. In 2024 she participated in the Berlin postgraduate program Goldrausch Künstlerinnen. Yesakova is a member of Frontviews at HAUNT Berlin, where she is also part of the curatorial board.
Central to Yesakova’s artistic practice is the research into the increasing role of information in regulating and controlling human behaviour—being able as it is to rapidly adapt to any situation and reduce everything to statistics. A search for truth in a stream of interference.
Yesakova uses diagrams or engineering-like schematic drawings to arrive at an alternative form of artistic narrative. Bureaucratically consistent, dry and lifeless. She often refers to theoretical concepts like Gilles Deleuze’s layering approach of thinking, Jacques Lacan’s analysis of society’s structures and Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concepts.
In recent years, she has been inspired by the idea of ciphering and creating a certain structure of visual storytelling, often…








